26th September 2015 - Important Current Affairs updates

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hosted a special high-powered summit called G4 Summit in New York.

This G-4 summit is very special to India because this summit was hosted by India for the first in more than 10 years (after 2004)

The G4 nations comprising Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan are four countries which support each other’s bids for permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council.

Leaders of G4 Countries :

Indian PM Narendra Modi

Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff

In this summit, the G4 countries emphasized that they were "legitimate candidates for permanent membership" in an expanded and reformed UN security council and supported each other's candidature.

India’s Permanent Representative to the UN : Asoke Mukerji

PM Narendra Modi meets with top Fortune 500 CEOs. Some Important names are,

Tesla CEO - Elon Musk

APPLE CEO - Tim Cook

Microsoft CEO - Satya Nadella

Google CEO - Sundar Pichai

CISCO CEO - Chuck Robbins

Qualcomm CEO - Steven Mollenkopf

Adobe CEO - Shantanu Narayen

Aecom CEO - Mike Burke

PepsiCo CEO - Indra Nooyi

National Affairs

The Jharkhand Government has implemented the Food Security Act that aims at providing subsidised food grains to around 80 percent of the state's population.

Important Points to Note :

The scheme would cover 51,70,159 total number of families and more specifically 2,33,40,832 people have been identified for getting rice at Re 1 per kg per head.

As many as 37,37,609 people in the list are from Antyodaya.

Chief Minister of Jharkhand : Raghuwar Das

In a significant development, the Gujarat High Court has ruled that in cases of minor Muslim girls, the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, will prevail over the provisions of Muslim personal laws.